Readdle's Scanner Pro for iOS Free for First Week of 2014

Looking for a great scanner for your documents? Don't bother with the clunky, heavy machines of yesteryear--instead, head over to the App Store and download Readdle's wonderful ScannerPro app. It's the free iOS app of the week (and of 2014), and it's a must-download if you if ever need to use a scanner to send off a few documents.

Usually, the app costs around $6.99 to download. It's been available for sale off and on since its first appearance on the App Store in 2011, but this week marks the first time that it's been available for free. Using your iPhone or iPad's camera, you can use it as a scanner for receipts, contracts, and countless other associated documents. Best of all? It stores all your apps in the cloud for easy download at a later date.

It's important to understand that it's not just a camera app. Scanner Pro uses edge detection to find the edges of the paper you're photographing (which doesn't take long at all), and then it straightens the document and removes any shadows, corrects skewed perspectives, and renders most documents presentable for professional e-mails or, indeed, printouts. Keep in mind that quality of the scans partly depends on the quality of the camera--in other words, an iPhone 5s will produce much better scans than a iPhone 4.